William Peter Carey v. Civil Aeronautics Board

WOODBURY, Chief Judge.

The petitioner, a resident of Massachusetts, and a senior airlines pilot for Northeast Airlines who had flown approximately 10,800 hours and who had held an Airline Transport Rating for 10 years, was the pilot in command of a Northeast Airlines DC-3 A scheduled to fly on November 30, 1954, from New York to Boston as Flight 656, and, after a layover of about half an hour in Boston, on to Concord, Laconia and Berlin, New Hampshire, as Flight 792. The flight from New York to Boston was conducted under visual flight rules (VFR) and was routine. So also was the flight on from…